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However upon his defeat, the Shining Trapezohedron berates Eshe for refusing its help, and abandons her to merge with Nyarlethotep, revealing the god to be its true form. If Eshe has destroyed all seven Elder Shards, she again faces off against Nyarlethotep. However, looking at her hand, she realizes in horror that the Shining Trapezohedron has come back with her. Upon defeating it, a portal opens and Eshe is able to escape back to the desert. If Eshe has used or destroyed only some of the Elder Shards, Eshe finally faces off against the Echaton's god, Nyarlethotep. The game has three endings depending on what the player chooses to do with the collected Elder Shards. Alternatively, Eshe can use a Valkyrie incinerator to destroy the Elder Shards for bonuses to her base stats. The Trapezohedron urges Eshe to allow it to use the Elder Shards to permanently 'Corrupt' her abilities, making them more powerful but at the cost of her humanity. As she does, she finds Elder Shards, fragments of the failed summoning ritual and vessels of eldritch energy. The final confrontation between the leaders of these two groups during a summoning ritual caused the ritual to fail, resulting in the remaining Eschaton to become monsters, the remaining Valkyries to become corrupted and fused to their war machines, and the landscape to become warped and unstable.Įshe fights through the monsters and the machines, acquiring Valkyrie technology to help her attack enemies and navigate the underworld. The two begin to travel the caves together.Īs they progress, the Trapezohedron explains that their civilization, an Eldritch theocracy known as the Eschaton, was at war with an invading force known as the Valkyries, who used advanced technology to fight their eldritch magic. Falling into an ever-shifting underworld, Eshe encounters the Shining Trapezohedron, which grants her the power to defend herself. The game opens with a woman, Eshe, wandering a desert in a sandstorm when, coming across mysterious ruins, she is pulled into the ground by a mysterious force. The game makes heavy use of Lovecraftian horror elements. She can also use 'Elder Shards' that drop from bosses to sacrifice her humanity in order to gain more powerful abilities, such as turning into a gargoyle.

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The main character can use 'Shards' gained from enemies to upgrade herself permanently using a skill tree. Additionally, after every death, the passages connecting the game's areas rearrange themselves using procedural generation. The game makes use of some random elements, as enemy hordes will spawn randomly and try to attack the player. These are unlocked at shrines, and the player can also open shortcuts that provide a faster way across the game's world. Sundered is a metroidvania game in which the player must traverse a side-scrolling world and unlock new abilities to progress.

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